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" I have a very conveniently photographic memory of emotions - it's overwhelming, because things don't fade for me. "

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" Everything is so chaotic and messy in the world, and I have always felt kind of dirty. "

" I've been very careful to always make clear that I am a real person. That's why I'm on social media a lot. "

" When you're young is the one time when you get to indulge in being morose and take yourself most seriously. "

" I hope to be a writer and musician my whole life, fingers crossed. "

" I remember I took a music course in junior year of high school, and some girl brought in 'Teardrops On My Guitar,' and she was like, 'Isn't this song great?' And everyone was like, 'Who's Taylor Swift?' And now, every time I listen to Taylor Swift, I remember that moment. "

" I was one of those girls people called 'intense.' "

" When someone is a musician - trying to make a living off being a public figure - it's really easy for people to see me as a face on a screen that doesn't have a personal life. "

" I'd always been fascinated by death, which sounds so morbid. Especially being a woman trying to make music, I think there's a sense that you're never young enough, or your career is going to end soon. "

" I don't think I have the kind of creativity to write fiction. "

" I try to be regimented and try to stay healthy and work out and eat properly and go to sleep. And not get too caught up in the industry in my regular life, so I can save all my expression and energy for my art. "

" I think music is supposed to be shared. "

" I'm so smart. I am good at doing math really quickly in my head. "

" I think it's very dangerous as an artist to be comfortable. "

" I understand that, because there are so many musicians, you have to make artists into brands, but I sometimes feel like I have to be some kind of non-human icon in order for people to listen to my music. "

" I would love for Rivers Cuomo to listen to my music and see what he thinks. "

" I've been asked whether I have a hobby, and have felt strangely offended that anyone would assume I have the time. "

" It's nice to know there's a big world with many perspectives. I tend to get so stuck in my own small world easily, and going out into the world reminds me that I'm not the center of the world - in a good way. "

" I think my real influences are out of my control, which are the things that entered my brain when I was a kid growing up. "

" I lived abroad most of my life in insular international communities. "

" I took a few piano lessons as a kid, but it didn't last; I just learned piano from doing it over and over on my own, because I didn't have many friends, and there was always a keyboard in the house. "

" When you're doing something you're not used to, you kind of realize that you're still a kid: even though the whole world around you sees you as an adult and you're expected to act like an adult, you still haven't actually grown up. "

" I really like The Cars. They're just so over the top and super pop, but I don't feel guilty. I'm proud of all the music I listen to. "

" You always want what you can't have, and that all-American thing, from the day I was born, I could never enter that dream. That all-American white culture is something that is inherited instead of attained. "

" I didn't fit in anywhere when I grew up, but I was always American, so to survive, I created this 'ideal America.' Finally I came to the U.S. and realised, 'Oh, I don't belong here, either.' "

" Being an outsider at all times is both unhealthy and useful, because you become much more objective about things. "

" On tour, people know that if they ever ask me what I want to eat, I will always say Asian food. I'm becoming a stereotype, but it's what I want to eat. I want to eat rice. "

" My father was obsessed with folk music from around the world, and I think the countless artists who performed them are my biggest influences. "

" Oftentimes, the most important decisions I make are the ones I don't put much thought into. "

" I think your ego gets in the way of making something good because it kind of blinds you from the actual art. "